Earlier this week Robert F Kennedy Jr announced plans to overhaul the US program that compensates people injured by vaccination.
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) was developed in the 1980s as a means for people who experience rare but serious side effects from vaccines to receive compensation from pharmaceutical companies, without manufacturers being found negligent. The program was developed at a time when lawsuits drove vaccine makers from the market.
The VICP covers vaccines routinely recommended to children or pregnant people. Changes to the program could potentially prompt vaccines makers to withdraw from the US market like they did in the 1980s.
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